Values Clarification: A True Understanding

A True Understanding

Part One:

During my life I have gotten the opportunity to have an abundance of important influences, role models, and people who have molded me into the person I have become. There has not only been people who have influenced me, however, there has been many situations that have helped me become who I am, and set my morals on which I act on daily. Although my life has not been effect, these influences have given me insight on what is right or wrong, not just based on society, but religion and moral standing.

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My parents being my sole provider for so many years, have become some of the most influential people within my life. They have raised me to do what is morally correct, based on the Christian faith, and their own ethical and moral viewpoint. Although my parents put a lot of work into raising me, I believe that my actual church home gave me a lot of what is morally correct for me as well. These Two factors have contributed a lot into my life, in both similar, but also different ways. My church not only gave me the steps to know how to decipher what is right or wrong based on my religion, however, they held me accountable in many areas that lead me to understanding the societal ethics and morals that we live in today.

Although I have had those two great influences, I have had some bad ones as well. Although this may sound like a bad thing, it is not. Being from the inner city of Cleveland, I was able to see a lot of things that others would not be able to see. By looking at these people as examples, I was able to depict what it really meant to do what was good and what what was bad, based on societal norms. Other factors such as my foster parents, and siblings have contributed in teaching me what w...

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...ce by the Social Work Code of Ethic. If you follow these rules in the same fashion that you follow the rules that you have been taught your whole life, then you will be doing a great job in the profession. At any point you feel as if your personal morals are conflicting with those of the profession, it is okay to go and talk to your supervisor.

Talking to your supervisor and allowing them to know that you have an ethical issue, even a moral issues, will ensure that you are doing the best you can. In class we talked about how this happens a lot more in the beginning stages of the social work career. I believe, that as you grown in the profession, you will start to learn those skills needed to become more professions. Professionalism is not something someone just wakes up with, however, it is something just like ethics and morals, that a person learns over the years.